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Introduction I decided to write this paper based on a couple of scary experiences I've had over my professional life. It seems very strange to me how many companies take an almost flippant approach to planning for disasters. Consider September 11 th or Hurricana Katrina or Superstorm Sandy. If such an event struck you data-center would your company be able to recover? Understanding the value of your engineering data All data in a company is important and it is critical to back it up and make sure you can recover from unplanned issues; but consider the loss of your engineering data. In many companies there is no company without this data! It still surprises me that senior people in companies don't realize that without the intellectual property (IP) of the engineering drawings, bill of materials, NC toolpaths, material specs, process sheets etc. the company could quickly go out of business. So that is why people invest in PLM systems etc. right? Of course, but s

Overview Over the past few months/years the main focus of discussions in the PLM industry seem to have centered on the “Cloud”. I thought I'd take a few minutes to provide my commentary/overview on this emerging technology with a few pros and cons to help people considering a move to the cloud. Most if not all PLM companies are now offering some kind of web/cloud/hosted offering – here is a non exhaustive list of the ones I found with some cursory googling. Siemens with AWS (Amazon Web Services) PTC Cloud services Autocad PLM360 Oracle Agile PLM in the cloud Arena Solutions Aras Cloud Oleg's BeyondPLM site also has an excellent (as usual!) write-up here... http://beyondplm.com/2014/09/19/what-cloud-plm-cannot-do-for-you/ What is it? I would define CloudPLM as accessing your PLM solution via a third party (host) where the host provides standard hosting options e.g. web server farms etc, but with the addition of applicati